Category
page 1Russian dissidents
Alexei Navalny
Russian jurist and opposition leader (1976–2024)
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist (1958–2006)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
Eduard Limonov
Russian writer (1943-2020)
Yelena Bonner
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
Mikhail Kasianov
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russia (2000–2004)
Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Yulia Navalnaya
Russian public figure, Alexei Navalny's widow
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Russian political activist and musician
Viktor Suvorov
Soviet and Russian writer
Polina Zherebtsova
Russian writer
Alexander Tarasov
Russian academic and politician
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Soviet-Russian human rights activist (1927–2018)
Valeriya Novodvorskaya
Russian politician (1950-2014)
Ilya Yashin
Russian activist and liberal politician
Sergei Kovalev
Russian politician (1930–2021)
Denis Voronenkov
Russian politician (1971—2017)
Lyubov Sobol
Russian political and public figure, lawyer (1987-)
Ilya Ponomarev
Russian-Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur
Sergei Udaltsov
Russian left politician
Galina Starovoytova
Russian academic and politician (1946-1998)
Victor Shenderovich
Russian politician and journalist
Aleksandra Skochilenko
Russian artist
Sergey Dorenko
Russian journalist (1959–2019)
Suren Gazaryan
Russian zoologist, Goldman prize winner from Russia
Maxim Katz
Russian political and public figure
Andrey Piontkovsky
Russian scientist, political writer and analyst
Yuri Shchekochikhin
Russian journalist (1950-2003)
Maria Alyokhina
Russian political activist and musician
Vyacheslav Maltsev
Russian politician (born 1964)
Vladimir Ryzhkov
Russian liberal politician
Nadezhda Karpova
Russian association football player
Boris Kagarlitsky
Soviet dissident
Maria Gaidar
Ukrainian and former Russian politician
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Russian musician
Leonid Gozman
Russian psychologist and Russian politician
Oleg Kashin
Russian dissident
Vladimir Linderman
Latvian politician (born 1958)
Lev Ponomaryov
Russian politician
Alexey Gorinov
Russian politician and political prisoner
Yevgeniya Chirikova
Russian environmental activist (born 1976)
Ildar Dadin
Russian activist
Fail Alsynov
Bashkir activist (born 1986)
Viktor Anpilov
Russian hardline Communist politician/trade unionist (1945-2018)
Sergei Yushenkov
Russian politician (1950-2003)
Vladimir Osechkin
Russian human rights activist
Aleksey Panin
Russian actor
Lilia Chanysheva
Russian auditor, politician, an associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny
George Yury Right
Fantasy and sci-fi writer, anti-sex proponent
Vera Polozkova
Soviet writer and poet
Sergey Parkhomenko
Russian journalist
Olga Romanova
Russian journalist
Aleksandr Skobov
Soviet human rights activist and journalist
Leonid Razvozzhayev
Russian politician's aide
Evgenia Debryanskaya
Russian activist (born 1953)
Alexander Goldfarb
American microbiologist and activist
Malva Landa
geologist and human rights activist
Vladislav Inozemtsev
Russian economist